Lothar Wimmer

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Lothar Ferdinand Wimmer (born April 19, 1889 in Vienna , † December 17, 1966 in Purkersdorf ) was an Austrian ambassador .

Life

Lothar Ferdinand Wimmer was born in Vienna in 1889 as the son of the later Imperial and Royal Finance Minister Ferdinand Freiherrn von Wimmer (1860–1919). He studied law and entered the civil service as a religiously thinking Catholic in 1912. In 1911 he completed a six-month traineeship at Anglo-Austrian Bank. From 1929 to 1933 he worked as a legation counselor at the legation in London. In 1937 he became envoy to Belgrade for a year . From 1946 to 1950 he worked as an ambassador in Brussels . He was a member of the Austrian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1946 . From January 26, 1950 to January 29, 1952 he served as envoy in London . He was Ambassador to the Court of St James’s from January 30, 1952 to February 26, 1955 .

Honors

Publications

  • The Ostmark. Austria-Hungary's mission in world history . Second, revised edition. Fromme, Vienna 1917.
  • Experiences et tribulations d'un diplomate Austria entre deux guerres 1929–1938 . (French). Baconnière, Neuchâtel 1946.
  • Between Ballhausplatz and Downing Street . Fromme, Vienna 1958.
  • Austria and Yugoslavia 1937–1938 . Bergland-Verlag, Vienna 1965.
  • The world crisis years 1929–1933 . Publishing house "Das Bergland-Buch", Salzburg 1966.

Web links

  • Dr. Dollfuss and the homes of England . (Pictorial representation). Associated Press, p. l. 1933, OBV .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Fritz : Austria's Finance Minister - Part 24: A distinguished official. v (on) Wimmer . In: wienerzeitung.at , October 15, 2002, accessed on January 2, 2017.
  2. ↑ Michael Gehler (Ed.): Playful self-determination? : the South Tyrol question in 1945/46 in US intelligence reports and Austrian files. A documentation . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 1996, ISBN 3-7030-0302-2 , p. 69.
  3. ↑ AAS 17 (1925), n. 1, p. 37.
predecessor Office successor
Heinrich Schmid Austrian ambassador to Serbia from
1937 to 1938 		Walter Conrad-Eybesfeld
Siegfried von Clary and Aldringen Austrian ambassador to Belgium from
1946 to 1950 		Kurt Farbowsky
Heinrich Schmid Austrian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
January 30, 1952 to February 26, 1955 		Johannes Schwarzenberg
personal data
SURNAME Wimmer, Lothar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wimmer, Lothar Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1966
Place of death Purkersdorf